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author | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2009-09-20 05:55:36 -0700 |
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committer | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2009-09-20 05:55:36 -0700 |
commit | 6469f540ea37d53db089c8fea9c0c77a3d9353d4 (patch) | |
tree | 1dc9dc077150d57f4424cae49e711b5dd6e903a1 /fs/ntfs/mft.c | |
parent | 304e6d5fe294b80e6d3107f99ec241816390ebcc (diff) | |
parent | 78f28b7c555359c67c2a0d23f7436e915329421e (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
Merged in order that I can apply the Nomadik nand/onenand support patches.
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ntfs/mft.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/ntfs/mft.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/mft.c b/fs/ntfs/mft.c index 23bf684..1caa0ef 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs/mft.c +++ b/fs/ntfs/mft.c @@ -384,13 +384,12 @@ unm_err_out: * it is dirty in the inode meta data rather than the data page cache of the * inode, and thus there are no data pages that need writing out. Therefore, a * full mark_inode_dirty() is overkill. A mark_inode_dirty_sync(), on the - * other hand, is not sufficient, because I_DIRTY_DATASYNC needs to be set to - * ensure ->write_inode is called from generic_osync_inode() and this needs to - * happen or the file data would not necessarily hit the device synchronously, - * even though the vfs inode has the O_SYNC flag set. Also, I_DIRTY_DATASYNC - * simply "feels" better than just I_DIRTY_SYNC, since the file data has not - * actually hit the block device yet, which is not what I_DIRTY_SYNC on its own - * would suggest. + * other hand, is not sufficient, because ->write_inode needs to be called even + * in case of fdatasync. This needs to happen or the file data would not + * necessarily hit the device synchronously, even though the vfs inode has the + * O_SYNC flag set. Also, I_DIRTY_DATASYNC simply "feels" better than just + * I_DIRTY_SYNC, since the file data has not actually hit the block device yet, + * which is not what I_DIRTY_SYNC on its own would suggest. */ void __mark_mft_record_dirty(ntfs_inode *ni) { |